Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Oakport Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oakport Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltidean Church and Burial Ground (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.98341, -8.19555
- SMR number
- RO006-059001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked faintly as a rectangular burial ground (RO006-059002-) (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the gentle NE-facing slope of a rise. Large oval overgrown area (dims 103m NW-SE; 47m NE-SW), which remains unplanted in a coniferous forest, defined by an external scarp (H 0.5-1m) N-E and an internal scarp (H 0.5-1m) S-W. It is bisected by a N-S field bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2-0.3m). There is no visible surface evidence of a church or of burial, but there is a local tradition that it was a nunnery (RO006-059003-) (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.